Automation Test QA
QA London 3 days a week
£60,000 - £65,000
Permanent

We are actively looking to secure a An Automation Test QA QAto join Experis.Experis

Experis ExperisConsultancy is a Global entity with a well-established team with over 1000 consultants on assignment across 20 clients globally. Our UK operation is growing and has very aggressive plans for expansion over the coming years. We form part of the Manpower group of companies that turn over $20 billion a year collectively.

Experis ExperisUK have partnerships with major clients across the UK spanning multiple industries; our approach is a very personal one, with both our clients and our own employees. We are passionate about training, technology and career development.

Job Description:
We recognise the importance of attracting, retaining and developing diverse world-class professionals. We identify, foster and reward all talent, valuing and leveraging the diversity amongst our people to offer creative and innovative products and services to the Group and our third-party customers. We have a culture that enables us to be forward thinking and agile and individuals can really make a difference. Everyone shares a common vision and a team spirit that encourages people to make things happen. We are about working together, embracing the challenge and delivering exceptional customer service.
We continuously test our understanding and thinking through innovation and new ideas, anticipating and reacting swiftly to changes in our industry. We believe in hard work, but in a relaxed atmosphere and operate in an environment where innovative thinking is encouraged.
You will find people from a wide range of backgrounds. Our people are vital to our continued success and our future depends on attracting and retaining the best individuals who think in a different way. It has a cosmopolitan mix of more than 30 nationalities and over 35 spoken languages which creates a rich diversity of talent contributing to its creativity and innovation amongst its 800 employees with key offices in London, Paris, Singapore and Houston.

The team services the IT needs for a number of business areas including Market Risk, Credit Risk, Product Control, Regulatory Operations, Treasury, Finance and Tax.

The team provides comprehensive development and third line support for custom-built applications ensuring best practise is applied to system analysis, development, support, upgrades and testing. The team is dynamic to new business requirements yet highly controlled and disciplined in its approach.

Position purpose
* As a Automation QA,QA you will establish and evolve the formal QA QAprocess ensuring that the right approach is taken to test the business processes, using industry-accepted best practices.
* Provide technical leadership and guidance in the design, implementation and continuous improvement of the test stack, metrics, release process and automation wherever possible.
* Participate in the analysis and design phases as required, ensuring QA QAcoverage during all phases of the project life cycle
lifecycle* Collaborate with all project stakeholders including business stakeholders, product owners, analysts, and development to deliver a complete solution
* Excellent communication and organisational skills as the role involve interfacing with business independently as a QA
QA* Ability to ramp up their business knowledge under challenging t,timelines any previous knowledge in Finance will be useful
* Participate in SCRUM methodologies where appropriate
* Contribute to the on-going improvement of the development processes

Experience required
* Minimum six years hands-on Q QAexperience in a distributed Microsoft environment with at least the last three years dedicated exclusively working with a commercial application involving Microsoft technologies (.Net) and relational databases.
* At least four-year commercial experience in working with web based applications, on premise or cloud based
* A strong level of Automation Q QAexperience in a distributed Microsoft environment working with Development, Business and Product Owners

Technical requirements
The candidates will have solid experience of developing solutions utilising the following technologies:

* Automated continuous integration pipeline, including automated deployment (D DevOpsServer preferred)
* Test/behaviour driven (TDD/B)BDD techniques
* Experienced in S SQLdatabase technologies and knowledge of querying Oracle and S SQLDatabases and associated tools
* Experienced in Azure based applications and accompanied Q QAapproaches
* Experience in Excel reporting and how to apply it effectively for the purposes of data comparison and validation
* Experience in techniques and tools for validating and reconciling large volumes of data
* Knowledge of CI/CD, Postman, Azure tools, service v virtualization for Q QAand other key tools
* Agile development (SCRUM preferred)
* GIT branch management

Preferably, the candidate will have experience in working in a financial trading environment with knowledge of traded products and their full life cycle.

Person specification
* Hands-on approach, flexible and positive attitude
* Numerate
* Ability to understand business processes quickly
* Strong communication and inter-personal skills
* Ability to fully participate in m-multifaceted team environment
* Attention to detail and strong focus on accuracy of information

Benefits Include:

Contributory pension scheme

Employee Assistance Program

Medical and Dental cover

22 days holiday + bank holidays

Maternity Pay/Shared Parental leave and paternity leave

Sick pay

Suitable Candidates should submit C CVsin the first instance.